In April, Maine's Department of Transportation announced plans to dump dredge spoils contaminated with lead, mercury, PCBs and petroleum derivatives, into the prime lobster grounds of Penobscot Bay.
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The federal government on Thursday announced tighter restrictions on the amount of toxic PCBs in dredge spoils to be dumped off prime New Jersey beaches, a step environmentalists said should have come sooner.
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"Although dredge spoils may be having some impact, they are not at the top of my list as far as the cause of the die-off, " he said.
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The core samples will in turn shape the decision of where to build the first of what could be two huge sludge-processing plants, which will remove water from the dredge spoils after they are removed.
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The site is currently being leased by Oregon LNG and consists of 96 acres ( 39 ha ) on the Skipanon Peninsula, a man-made peninsula that was created in the 1920s out of dredge spoils.
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McMurray said the images it captured showed that supposedly " dead zones " singled out by the Army Corps of Engineers for the dumping of toxic dredge spoils are, in fact, teeming with marine life.
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The great black-backed gull is found in a variety of coastal habitats, including rocky and sandy coasts and dredge spoils, which, in the state of New Jersey, comprise their most prevalent nesting sites.
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Poplar Island was seen as a mutually beneficial project because Baltimore and the Corps of Engineers ( the lead agencies in the project ) needed a new place to put dredge spoils, and the FWS needed new land.
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The dredged spoils _ which contain 100, 000 pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs primarily from hot spots _ will be shipped to an unspecified landfill outside of the Hudson Valley, according to sources familiar with the project.
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Rep . James Saxton, R-Mount Holly, said the Army Corps and the EPA " have opened the door to dumping oil and chemical-contaminated dredge spoils from New York into the ocean off the Jersey Shore ."
